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What I saw in the Xerox PARC technology was the caveman interface,
you point and you grunt. A massive winding down, regressing away
from language, in order to address the technological nervousness
of the user. Users wanted to be infantilized, to return to a
pre-linguistic condition in the using of computers, and the Xerox
PARC technology`s primary advantage was that it allowed users to
address computers in a pre-linguistic way. This was to my mind a
terribly socially retrograde thing to do, and I have not changed
my mind about that.
"The Encryption Wars: An Interview with Eben Moglen"
Cabinet Megazine, Issue 1, 2000
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/1/i_moglen_1.php
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